Glowing Globes

This year, the American Music Awards got a new set design, created by Los Angeles firm Shaffner & Stewart in Los Angeles. The venue — L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium — provided production designer Joe Stewart a large canvas on which to design a new, modern look.
“The stage is 100ft. wide and 80ft. deep,” Stewart says. “It literally is the largest stage west of the Mississippi.”
That size also allowed Stewart, who has been a stage production designer since 1987 with partner Joe Shaffner, ...

Sessions On Demand

At the 2014 Broadway Projection Master Classes during the session Focus On Broadway III, Dan Scully (in his Broadway debut) discusses the design challenges in bringing the German hit musical, Rocky, to America....More